APSA
Throwback Thursdays: #APSA2010 Exhibit Hall – Washington, D.C.
The #APSA2010 Annual Meeting took place in Washington, D.C. Below are some highlights of the Exhibit Hall.
Month: January 2016
APSA
The Insufficiency of “Democracy by Coincidence”: A Response to Peter K. Enns
by Martin Gilens In “Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation,” Peter Enns (2015) focuses on a crucially important question: Given the large disparities in political influence of more and less well-off Americans, “why don’t those in […]
APSA
Professor Emeritus of Political Science & Leading Scholar, Lloyd Rudolph, Has Died
Lloyd Rudolph, professor emeritus of political science, died Jan. 16, in Oakland, Calif. of prostate cancer. He was 88. He had a long and distinguished career at UChicago, almost entirely in collaboration with his wife, […]
Advocacy
Take Action: Letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regarding academic freedom in Turkey
Last week, many APSA members wrote to us and brought attention to current developments in Turkey, where scholars – including scholars of politics – signing a petition calling on the Turkish government to end military […]
APSA
Deliberative Agenda Setting: Piloting Reform of Direct Democracy in California
Can the people deliberate to set the agenda for direct democracy in large scale states? How might such an institution work? The 2011 California Deliberative Poll piloted a solution to this problem helping to produce […]
APSA
Organizations and the Democratic Representation of Interests: What Does It Mean When Those Organizations Have No Members?
by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Philip Edward Jones, Hye Young You, Traci Burch, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady This article documents the prevalence in organized interest politics in the United States of organizations—for example, corporations, think tanks, universities, or hospitals—that have […]
APSA
Throwback Thursdays: #APSA2004 Awards Program – Chicago, Ill.
The #APSA2004 Annual Meeting took place at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Ill. Below are some highlights of the George Soros dinner.
APSA
Chronic Instability and the Limits of Path Dependence by Michael Bernhard
Historical institutionalism challenged older forms of comparative historical analysis by moving away from purely structural explanations of historical outcomes. Instead it posited that there were critical junctures in which actors chose between institutional alternatives, which […]